Kingdom of Macedon

The Kingdom of Macedon was a Greek kingdom that was founded in the 9th century BC, which ended in 146 BC. The Macedonians were a northern city-state that flourished in an area different from Mycenaean Greece, and Ancient Greece was not affected until the 350s BC. A man named Philip II of Macedon conquered Greece in 338 BC and his son Alexander III (The Great) conquered the Achaemenid Empire and most of the known world. However, his empire splintered after his death, and the Antigonid Empire was created in 312 BC. It took over Greece from Cassander and emerged victorious in the power struggle after Lysimachus and Seleukos were killed, and the Ptolemies confined to Egypt through regional contention. The Antigonids conquered Athens, Sparta, and Epirus from 270 BC onwards, and were only brought down when the Roman Republic conquered them in 146 BC after the Battle of Cynoscephalae and the Battle of Pydna.

The Kingdom of Macedon had three periods of history:
 * Kingdom Era (800s BC-358 BC)
 * Empire Era (358 BC-323 BC)
 * Diadochi Era (323 BC-281 BC)
 * Antigonid Era (281 BC-146 BC)